Andrea

“Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.”
― Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

“A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.”
― Martha Gellhorn

“To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.”
― Robert Harris, Pompeii

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis